Sentences with phrase «fiscal equity case»

At any rate, it could be argued that these threats of financial sanction for opt out are meaningless when our schools are already having money withheld: after more than a decade New York State still owes city schools nearly $ 2 billion dollars awarded by the courts in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Where once there was hope that the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case would radically alter the way education is delivered in the city, crucial issues like accountability, choice, and much - needed changes to bargaining contracts have been virtually swept aside by New York - style interest - group politics.

The Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case that the state had failed to meet its constitutional obligation to provide adequate education to New York City students.

Nixon says Cuomo is not obeying a 12 - year - old court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Hawkins has also said if elected that he will make up the $ 9 billion cumulative shortfall in Foundation Aid funding for schools enacted in 2007 to satisfy the court decision on the Campaign Fiscal Equity case.

Superintendent turnover, the latest in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case and solutions to school violence are also among the topics this week.

«New full day pre-K is a major operating expense,» said Michael Rebell, an attorney who argued the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case and is gearing up for another lawsuit over the state's school - funding formula.

NYSUT, meanwhile, again urged the state to fully fund schools under the terms of a 2007 settlement in the high - profile Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which required the state to fix its school funding formula and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a «sound, basic education» to all children.

More money for city schools, ordered more than 15 years ago by the state's highest court, in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

The state, the two mayors say, still owes New York City $ 2.6 billion and Syracuse $ 87.1 million from the Campaign For Fiscal Equity case.

«It is not obviously the same as addressing the core inequality as created by the absence of a resolution in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, this is not a follow - through on that commitment by the state, but it does look like a substantial step forward for school aid,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Nixon said Cuomo is not obeying a 12 - year - old court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which says the state needs to spend billions more on schools in order for them to become equitable.

Not exact matches

Last time I checked we had a Constitution and a Court Case referred to as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

In particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State case.

Legislators, union leaders and activists rallied outside City Hall today to attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what they alleged was his failure to honor a Court of Appeals decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State case, which determined that Albany had shortchanged New York City schools some $ 15 billion.

Albany, NY — On this week's show, Alan talks with the executive director of New York's School Boards Association, Tim Kremer, about the status of the state's public schools, the long - running Campaign for Fiscal Equity court case, and their opinions on Education Commisioner Richard Mills and NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

Two prominent and recent adequacy cases — from New York (Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York) and Kansas (Montoy v. State)-- show that when courts attempt to overcome the problem of justiciability either they will founder trying to establish what an adequate education actually is or they will retreat to the legally safe but politically dangerous standard of eEquity v. New York) and Kansas (Montoy v. State)-- show that when courts attempt to overcome the problem of justiciability either they will founder trying to establish what an adequate education actually is or they will retreat to the legally safe but politically dangerous standard of equityequity.

In designing remedies, the federal courts could draw critical lessons from successful state cases such as Abbott v. Burke (New Jersey) and Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York.

Despite tremendous political pressure, New York governor George Pataki defended the case and ultimately prevailed at the appeals - court level (full disclosure: my firm served as co-counsel with the New York attorney general's office in the trial of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit).

In fact, while the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York poses the question of adequacy with characteristically New York bluntness and extravagance, many wonder if the case hasn't become a victim of those excesses and, during the 12 - year brawl over the merits of linking financial input with academic output, been overtaken by events.

Recent trends in cases on fiscal equity and education adequacy, however, effectively counter this pessimism, and confirm the strong connection between public education and a flourishing democracy.

Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State is the latest school finance case that seems as if it will never end.